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8 Traits of Highly Effective Influencers
This is a 10 page article. Be sure not to miss the rest of the story! The cult of personality has so pervaded all aspects of our lives. From Obama to Tom Cruise to Derek Jeter and even web celebrities. It pervades our culture thoroughly and it’s not entirely clear why. In most cases, we…
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I Love Social Networking, But . . .
As the song goes, it don’t pay my bills. So I signed on with a startup that does. Hopefully, I can do both (time permitting). But talk about two different worlds . . . Hardware, not software. Distinctly un-social (for now). Government, not commercial. Business, not consumer. And funded, not — well, self-funded. I’m working…
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Tech Policy is the new Economic Policy.
So, has anyone else been watching Wall Street do the 2000 style dot-com dance while the TechCrunch-watching, TechMeme-obsessed crowd throws parties like it’s 1999? I feel for the guys at Lehman and AIG, some of them my age, now out on the street. In fact, I feel even more sorry for them than I did…
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The Jolly Green Bubble
Earth Day was yesterday. I my college years all that meant to me was that the band Green Day was coming to town to play. Now it means “save the planet, if it can make us money”. “Greed, I mean Green is Good” CNN, the New York Times, Business Week, Advertising Age, “Good Morning America,”…